From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com,
davem@davemloft.net, mpm@selenic.com
Subject: Re: [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:37:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080730133727.7774de6a@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807301939.m6UJd5lT012610@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:39:04 -0700
akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
>
> Add the CONFIG_ETHTOOL option which allows to remove support for ethtool,
> not necessarly used on embedded systems. As this is a size-reduction
> option, it depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. It allows to save ~6 kilobytes of
> kernel code:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 1258447 123592 212992 1595031 185697 vmlinux
> 1252147 123592 212992 1588731 183dfb vmlinux.new
> -6300 0 0 -6300 -189C +/-
>
> Question: should we also remove ethtool-related functions from all network
> drivers ?
>
> This patch has been originally written by Matt Mackall
> <mpm@selenic.com>, and is part of the Linux Tiny project.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This option needs to be forced on when bridging or bonding is selected.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-30 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-30 19:39 [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support akpm
2008-07-30 20:37 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-07-30 20:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-30 21:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-30 21:35 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-30 21:48 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 21:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-30 22:04 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 23:35 ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-30 21:57 ` David Miller
2008-07-30 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 22:33 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:39 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:43 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:49 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:47 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 15:36 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-31 15:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-31 16:11 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-31 18:17 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-30 21:35 ` David Miller
2008-07-30 21:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 22:24 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-30 22:37 ` David Miller
2008-07-30 23:05 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-30 23:21 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 1:10 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-31 1:23 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:22 ` Kalle Valo
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